By The Numbers: 2024 ATP Challenger Tour
ATPTour.com reviews key facts and figures to remember from the 2024 ATP Challenger Tour season.
Ugo Carabelli Claims Most Match Wins
For the second consecutive year, an Argentine topped the Challenger match wins leaderboard. The 25-year-old Camilo Ugo Carabelli tallied a 49-16 season record, steering clear of second-placed Tristan Boyer, who went 44-23.
Ugo Carabelli claimed three titles, lifting the trophy in Piracicaba, Santa Cruz de la Sierra and Villa Maria. Last year’s match-wins leader was Ugo Carabelli’s countryman Francisco Comesana.
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Dzumhur Dominates With Six Titles
The 32-year-old Damir Dzumhur enjoyed a resurgent year, collecting a season-leading six Challenger titles and returning to the Top 100 for the first time in four years. Dzumhur was unstoppable in Challenger finals, winning 12 of 13 sets contested across six title matches. The former World No. 23 in the PIF ATP Rankings triumphed in Barletta, Ostrava, Zagreb, Santo Domingo, Istanbul and Maia.
Dzumhur is one of seven players to win at least six crowns in a Challenger season, joining Tallon Griekspoor, Benjamin Bonzi, Sebastian Baez, Facundo Bagnis, Juan Ignacio Chela and Younes El Aynaoui.
<img alt=”Damir Dzumhur wins his second Challenger title of 2024 in Ostrava.” style=”width:100%;” src=”/-/media/images/news/2024/04/29/21/15/dzumhur-ostravach-2024.jpg” />
Damir Dzumhur wins in Ostrava. Credit: Lukas Brezin
Jacob Fearnley won four Challenger trophies, second most this season. The Briton went 27-3 this season on the Challenger circuit, including a 17-match winning streak from August to October.
Fearnley became just the third player to finish a season with a win percentage of 90 per cent or greater (min. 25 matches played). Guillermo Canas and Carlos Berlocq both registered 28-3 (90.3 per cent) records in 2006 and 2011, respectively.
Teen Titans
At 17 years, 11 months, Brazil’s Joao Fonseca became the youngest Challenger champion of 2024 with his triumph at the Lexington Challenger. Teenagers accounted for 17 titles this year, matching the most in a single season since 2017. Three #NextGenATP teens claimed more than one title: Learner Tien (3), Gabriel Debru (2) and Nishesh Basavareddy (2).
Biggest Movers To Top 100
The 23-year-old Fearnley, who graduated from Texas Christian University in May, made the biggest jump to the year-end Top 100 of the PIF ATP Rankings, soaring 539 spots to No. 99. This is the biggest jump to the year-end Top 100 since 2019, when Jannik Sinner rose 685 spots.
| Player | Ranking Jump | Year-End 2023 — 2024 |
| Jacob Fearnley | +539 | 638 – 99 |
| Giovanni Mpetshi Perricard | +175 | 206 – 31 |
| Shang Juncheng | +135 | 185 – 50 |
| Jakub Mensik | +118 | 166 – 48 |
Title Leaders By Country
Players from 44 countries won a title this year. France again led the way with 24 trophies, just three shy of tying its record from last season. Frenchmen Giovanni Mpetshi Perricard and Benjamin Bonzi each claimed a hat-trick of trophies.
| Country | Titles |
| France | 24 |
| Argentina | 22 |
| United States | 18 |
| Italy | 12 |
ATP Tour & Challenger Tour champions
Six players were crowned champion not only on the ATP Challenger Tour, but also the ATP Tour: Luciano Darderi, Alejandro Tabilo, Mpetshi Perricard, Arthur Fils, Nuno Borges and Benjamin Bonzi.
Tabilo, Mpetshi Perricard and Fils won two tour-level titles. Mpetshi Perricard, 21, is the first player in a decade to win multiple ATP Tour and ATP Challenger Tour titles in a season. David Goffin and Pablo Cuevas both achieved the feat in 2014.
ATP Challenger 175 Events
Five different champions were featured at Challenger 175 events, the highest category at that level. Nuno Borges successfully defended his Phoenix title by downing Matteo Berrettini in the final. Alejandro Tabilo won in Aix-en-Provence while Mariano Navone triumphed in Cagliari. Navone ousted Lorenzo Musetti in the championship match, which was the first Challenger final since 2009 to feature a pair of Top 50 players.
Arthur Fils, first in the PIF ATP Live Race To Jeddah, won on home soil in Bordeaux, France. Italian Francesco Passaro lifted the trophy in Turin, where he defeated five Top 100 players en route to the title, becoming the first player to achieve that feat since Robin Soderling in 2009 (Sunrise).
Fast Facts
- Joel Schwaerzler became just the fourth player in Challenger history to lift a trophy while holding the ITF Junior No. 1 ranking. He joins Wu Yibing, Taylor Fritz and Nick Kyrgios as the only players to achieve the feat.
- At 18 years, 5 months, Rei Sakamoto became the third-youngest winner this year, with his title at the season-ending stop in Yokkaichi. He sits behind only Kei Nishikori as the youngest Japanese-born champion in Challenger history. Nishikori was just two months younger when he won in Bermuda in 2008.
- Vilius Gaubas became the youngest winner from Lithuania in Challenger history with his maiden title in Cordenons.
- Adolfo Daniel Vallejo became the first teenage winner from Paraguay with his maiden title in Sao Leopoldo.
- Hady Habib became the first champion from Lebanon in Challenger history with his victory in Temuco.
- In 2002, Richard Gasquet became the second-youngest champion in Challenger history, winning in Montauban, France at age 16. This year, Gasquet claimed a slice of history on the other end of the age spectrum. His title in Cassis, at 38 years, two months, made him the third-oldest winner, behind Ivo Karlovic and Fernando Verdasco.
- Hugo Dellien and Murkel Dellien both won titles this year, becoming the seventh set of brothers to lift singles trophies in the same season.
- Alejandro Tabilo and Luca Nardi both defeated then-World No. 1 Novak Djokovic, becoming the first players to upset a World No. 1 and claim a Challenger title in the same season since Thanasi Kokkinakis in 2018.
- Georgia, Rwanda and Congo made their Challenger debuts in 2024, with the cities of Kachreti, Kigali and Brazzaville hosting tournaments for the first time. In total, 94 different countries/territories have welcomed a Challenger tournament in the history of the circuit.
- A single-season record 27 different players with college tennis experience won titles this year.
- The record for shortest completed final was set in Fairfield, where Learner Tien dispatched Bernard Tomic in just 39 minutes